Research
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Latest funding
- $39,692
Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $62,950
You Should Have Stayed Home: Live theatrical performance for multiple audience members in virtual reality
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $103,050
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices
ONTARIO · 2021 · Principal investigator
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Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: performance; theatre; backlash; representation; casting practices; cultural politics; reaction; community-centred strategies; artistic leadership; collaborative problem solving; future-oriented pedagogy; decolonization; equity; diversity; inclusion
You Should Have Stayed Home: Live theatrical performance for multiple audience members in virtual reality
Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael
Keywords: Virtual Reality; Theatre; Civil Rights; Liveness
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Keywords: research-creation methodologies; digitally-enhanced & networked performance creation; transborder artistic collaboration & communication; immersive storytelling multilingual, collaborative web platform; mobile AV unit for research-creation
Performance, placemaking, and cultural policy workshop and digital hub
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Keywords: performance and place; art and cultural policy; creative placemaking; cities; urban development; performance studies pedagogy; site-based mobilizations; events; scalability; temporality; cultural infrastructure; archive; heritage; curation
Transgender and performance ethnography
Principal investigators: Cavanagh, Sheila L.
Keywords: transgender studies; performance; theatre; transphobia; human rights
Canadian consortium on performance and politics in the Americas
Keywords: performance studies; American hemisphere; embodied practice; politics; cultural theory
Performing publics
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Keywords: performance studies; performance theory; publics and counter-publics; public art; public space; public feelings; queer publics; site-specific performance; urban intervention; indigeneity; performance art
The Canadian performance studies project: mapping the field
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Keywords: performance studies; performance theory; history of disciplines; interdisciplinarity; Canadian performance; performance of everyday life
Affect and photojournalism
Principal investigators: Brown, Elspeth H.
Keywords: history of photography; photojournalism; visual communication; affect; emotion; feeling
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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